Thai and Vietnamese food have always had a lot of similarities. Mostly because the countries are located very close to each other. A lot of the ingredients that are core to Vietnamese cuisine are also used in Thai cuisine. For example, fish sauce! I seriously can’t imagine any Vietnamese dish without some fish sauce. Because we use similar ingredients, a lot of our food is quite similar too. There was one dish I loved eating at this pho place in LA back in the day. It was called Lau Thai. It is a tom yum soup hot pot where people would gather around the table, drop raw seafood and veggies into the soup, and then fish them out to eat. I absolutely loved this ritual. Inspired by this experience, I created my own version of this tom yum soup. The base to this tom yum soup recipe starts with a tom yum paste. I learned the basics of this paste from my trip to Chiang Mai a few years back, and my biggest takeaway is you can’t go wrong with fresh ingredients. Here I used lemongrass, fish sauce, Thai chili paste, ginger, lime leaves, shallots, red chilis, lime juice, sugar, […]
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